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March 10, 1925- 1,529,639

F.ELLER SYSTEM FOR rnrnwrne AND DELIVERING TICKETS AND THE LIKE Filed Sept. 12, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Fig. 2.

ATTORNEY March 10, 1925- F. ELLER I SYS'I'II FOR PRINTING AND DELIVERING TICKETS AND THE LIKE Filed Se t. 12. 2 Sheots-$heet 2 /////////////////0 III/ II/I/Il/IA 711/ INVENTOR ATTORNEY I Patented i '10, 1925.

UNITEDFSTATES' m'rz gamma, or BERLIN-TEGEL, qnnmm.

SYSTEM FOR PRINTING AND DELIVERING TICKETS THE LIKE.

Application filed September 12, 1924. Serial mas-1,301.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Fnrrz Ennnm'a citiat Berlin-Tegel,

zen of Germany residin ermany, have inin the State of russia,

vented certain new and useful Improvea ments in Systems for Printing and Delivering Tickets and the like; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such-as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to'make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in systems for printing and delivering tickets and the like, and the object of the improvements is to provide a s stem by means of which an ofiicial is enab ed to print and deliver any of a large number of tickets without leaving his seat at the gate or counter. With this object in view my invention con-' sists in providing a system in which a-group or groups of printing apparatus are disposed at a suitable part or parts of a room and connected with the attendants place by delivering and controlling means, the delivering means being arranged to deliver the printed tickets to the attendants place and the operating members for the said controlling means being located at a part or parts within the reach of the attendant, so

thatthe attendant is enabled toprint and take up; the tickets from any of a large number of printing apparatus without leaving his seat.

For the purpose of explaining the inven tion an example embodying the same has been shown in the accompanying drawings in which the same reference characters have been used in all the views to indicate corre-.

Fig.5, is "a bottom view of Fig. 3 partly in section on the line 55 of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 6, is a section taken on the line 66 of Fi 3.

In ig. 1 the numeral 1 indicates a gate or window through which the oflicial sells the tickets to thepassengers, Below the gate there is a table 2. supported on suitable legs or pillars 70. From the gate there rise a pair of uprights 3 which provide a support for, a cross-member 4 on which a grou of printing apparatus are mounted whic are disposed within cases 5. All the printing apparatus comprise a common driving shaft 6 mounted in the sidewalls of the casings 5 and adapted to be rotated by an electromotor 10 through the intermediary of a vertical shaft 7 and a worm gearing 8, 9. Above the cases 5 a shaft 71 is mounted in brackets 72, which carries rolled strips 15 of paper or card board. The delivery "ends of the printing apparatus are disposed above chutes provided by inclined boards 13 adapted'to direct the tickets delivered from the printin apparatus either to the right or left han side of the table 2. Normally all the printing apparatus are out of operation, and they are adapted to be selectively coupled to the rotar shaft 6 by means of push buttons 11 and owden cables 31 disposed in two sets at opposite sides of the gate 1. At the side of each button 11 there is a plate 12 indicating the impression of the ticket printed by the printing mechanism controlled by the push button.

The printing mechanism is shown in detail in Figs. 3 to 6. As shown the shaft 6 is made in sections one for each of. the printing mechanisms, and the sections are mounted in a sleeve 16 made integral with one of the side walls of the case 5 and in an anti-friction bearing 17 disposed in the opposite wall of the casing. At the ends the shaft sections are formed with coupling jaws 6 by means of which adjacent shaft sections can be connected with each other. Each of the shaft sections is made integral with a series'of coupling teeth6 At the side of the said teeth a cam disk 18 is rotatably mounted on the sleeve 16, which disk is provided with a circumferential cam face comprising a concentric portion 73 and a portion 74 of reduced radius, and with a cam groove 38. On the sleeve 16 a gear wheel 20 is rotatable which is connected with the cam disk 18 by a ring 19. Oil a bolt 22 secured to the cam disk a pawl 21 is rockingly mounted which is formed at one end with a claw 21 adapted for coupling engagement with the coupling teeth 6 A rearwardly extending arm 21 of the pawl is acted upon by a spring 24; bearing on a lug secured to the cam disk 18, and

it is .normally engaged by a nose 26 of an arm 26 of asbl crank lever 26 mounted on a bolt 29 secured to one of the walls of the casing 5. When thus engaged by the nose 26 the arm 21' bears on a pin 23 secured to the cam disk 18. 26''of the said bell crank lever 26 carries a roller 26*, which is in position for engagement with the peripheral cam faces 73 and 74 of the cam isk 18. A third arm 26' of i the bell crank lever is acted upon by a coiled 26 w ich is ada ted to be engaged by a rocker 61 mounte at 62 and acted upon b a spring 63. At the side of the cam dis 18 there is a lever 33 which is rockingly mounted on a bolt 34 secured to the slde vwall of the casing, and which is connected at its bottom end witha link35 jointed to a slide 43 guided in suitable guide ways 75 and carrying a blade 44 cooperating with a blade 44 secured to the bottom wall of the casin 5. At a part intermediate its ends the fever 33 carries a roller 37 engaging in the cam groove 38 of the disk 18. The cam groove 38 is formed so as to impart reci roeating movement to the lever 33 and the lade 44 upon rotation of the disk 18. The bolt 34 carries a pawl 39 acted upon by a' spring 40 tending to hold the same in en agement with a notch 41 of the cam disk or locking the same as against rotation in clockwise direction.

The ear wheel 20 is in mesh with an interme iate gear wheel 45 adapted to transmit rotary movement to two trains of gear wheels 46 ,47 52 and 48 49 54 55 The gear wheels 46 and 47 are con nected with feed rollers 46 and 47 having feeding portions corresponding in length to the length of the card or ticket to be printed upon and portions reduced in diameter, and the ear wheels 48 and 49 are connected wlth printing rollers 48 and 49. The roller 49 is equipped with types for printingon the ticket, and it shows mechanism 51 for printing successive numbers on the tickets. The gear wheel 52 is connected with registering mechanism 53 for count ing the number of the tickets delivered by the apparatus. 55 are connected with ink applying rollers 54 and 55, the roller 55 being immersed into an ink receptacle 56 provided at the bottom of the casing 5.

A second arm 3 The gear wheels 54 and Above the rollers 46 and 47 an arm 58 is roekingly mounted at 59 and in positionfor bearing on the strip of paper 57 coming from one of the rolls 15. The arm is connected by a rod 60 with the rocker 61, and the spring 63 tends to push the rod '60 and the arm 58 towards the left and into engagement with the strip 57.

The operation of the apparatus is as fol\- lows:

For taking a single ticket from the apparatus the attendant depresses the push button 11 corresponding to the desired ticket, and thereafter releases the same. Thereby the bell crank lever 30 is rocked through the intermediary of the Bowden cable 31, thus releasing the bell crank lever 26, which is now rocked by the spring 27 with its nose 26 away from the rearwardly extending arm 21 of the pawl 21. The spring 2-4 throws the pawl into coupling engagement with one of the teeth 6 so that the cam disk 18 is coupled with the rotary shaft 6, and the roller 26 engages the portion 74 of reduced diameter of the cam disk. The lever 33 is rocked to the right so that the blade 44 cuts a ticket previously printed, which ticket slides over one of the inclined boards 13 and on the table 2. From the cam disk 18 rotary movement is transmitted to the feed rollers 46, 47 and the printing rollers 48, 49, which, after about two thirds of a complete rotation and after the blade 44 has been retracted into initial position, advance the strip 57 and print thereon the impression corresponding to the ticket. so that a new ticket is passed downwardly and into position for being cut upon the next operation of the machine. After the cam disk has performed about one third of a complete rotation the roller 26 gets on the portlon 73 of larger diameter of the cam disk, so that the nose 26 is again in position for engagement with the arm 21?, in which position it is locked by the lever 30. Therefore, after one rotation of the cam disk, the arm 21 strikes against the nose 26, so that the pawl 21 is rocked'out of coupling engagementwith the teeth 6 and the cam disk 18 is arrested.

Should the attendant desire to print several tickets he does not release the push button. Therefore the lever 30 is held out of position for engagement with the arm 26 of the lever 26, which is therefore rocked into position for releasing the pawl 21 immediately after the cam'disk has completed one rotation and the roller 26 is in position below the portion 74 of reduced diameter of the cam disk 18. Therefore the cam disk 18 is again coupled to the rotary shaft 6 and it begins another rotation in the man- 1 and the pawl 21 gets into the position shown,

in Fig. 3. In any case the disk can bearpon each rotation of the gear wheels the mechanism 51 sets another figure in printing position, so that successive numbers are printed on the tickets. The tickets are counted by the registering mechanism 53.

If the end of the strip has passed the arm 58, the spring 63 rocks the same to the left and rocks the pawl 61 into position for engagement with the shoulder 26*. Therefore the lever 26 can not be rocked into position for releasing the pawl 21, so that the printing mechanism is not operated, even if the attendant depressesa push button.

' By connecting the printing mechanisms with the attendants place by the guide ways 13 and the cables 13 a. large number of printing mechanisms disposed at any suitable part of the room. can be controlled by the official. Since it is not necessary for the official to leave his seat he is enabled to print tickets at high velocity.

I wish it to be understood that my inven tion is not limited to the relative arrangement of the printing mechanisms and the oificials seat, nor to the construction of the guide ways 13 for the tickets and of the con.- trolling means 11, 3 shown in the drawings, the invention generally contemplating a system in which the printing apparatus are out of the reach of the oflicial sitting at the table 2. a

I claim:

1. A system for printing and delivering tickets and the like, comprising a group of normally inoperative printing apparatus, driving means therefor, means for individually coupling said printing apparatus with said driving means, means for delivering the ticket from the printing apparatus ,to a place located at a distance from said group,

and means controlling said coupling means,

the operating members of said controlling means being located near said place.

2. A system for printing and delivering tickets and the like, comprising a group of normally inoperative printing apparatus, driving means therefor, means for individually coupling said printing apparatus with said driving means, an inclined guide way located below the delivery parts of said printing apparatus for directing the tickets from the printing apparatus to a place located at a distance from said group, and means controlling said coupling means, the operating members of said controlling means being located near said place.

3. A system for printing and delivering tickets and the like, comprising a group of normally inoperative printing apparatus, driving means' therefor, means for individually coupling said printing apparatus with said driving means, an oflicials table located below said group of printing apparatus, a roof shaped guide way located below the delivery ends of said printing apparatus and above said table for delivering the tickets respectively to opposite sides of said table, and means controlling said coupling means, the operating members of said controlling means being located near said table.

4. A system for printing and delivering tickets and the like, comprising a group of normally inoperative printing apparatus, common driving means therefor, means for individually coupling said printing apparatus with said driving means, means for delivering the tickets from the printing apparatus to a place located at a distance from said group, and means controlling said coupling means, the operating members of said C(iIltl'OlllIlg means being located near said p ace.

5. A system for printing and delivering tickets and the like, comprising a group of normally inoperative printing apparatus, driving means therefor, means for individually coupling said printing a paratus with said driving means, means or dedelivering the tickets from the printing apparatus to a place located at a distance from said group, means controlling said coupling means for setting the same into coupling position, and automatic means for setting the coupling means in non-coupling position, the operating members of said controlling means being located near said place.

6. In an apparatus for printin tlckets and the like, the combination, wit a plurality of rotary coupling members-and driving means .therefor, of rotary members one for each of said coupling members, pawls one on each of said rotary members adapted to be automatically coupled with the coupling member cooperating therewith, rockers one for each of said pawls adapted upon rotation of the rotary members to throw the cooperating pawl out of couplin position, hand operated means for-indivi uall setting said rockers in inoperative posltions, automatic means tending'to set said rockers in operative positions, and printing means gperatively connected with said rotary memers. r

7. In an ap aratus forprintin tickets and the like, t e combination, wit rality of rotary coupling members anddriving means therefor, of rotary cam disks one for each of said .coupling members, a locking pawl on each of said disks adapted to be automatically thrown into coupling enloo a plution arranged for ermitting said bell crank printing mechanism one connected with each I.

lever -to be rocke out of engagement with of said camdisks; said pawl and a portion arranged for re- In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my turning the bell cranklever Into en agesignature in the presence of two witnesses.

ment with sald pawl, means for eac of. x FRITZ ELLER' said bell crank levers for locking the same in position for engagement with said pawl, Witnesses: hand operated means for setting said lock- JOHANNES SPITZ, ing means into non-lockmg posltlons, and MARIE FRITBIZKS. 

